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Q: How do I install Garageband on IOS 7?

How do I install Garageband for IOS7?

About a month ago I upgraded to IOS7 and decided that I wanted to put Garageband on my devices.

Yesterday, I went to the store to download and discovered two major disappointments:

a) Garageband no longer free (I get it, Apple can change their prices, yeah, but I was disappointed since Garageband was one of the reasons I finally upgraded)

b) I wasn't given the option to download the version for IOS 7 (free or not, I feel like I should be able to download the version that's compatible with my device.)

 

Instead, I'm offered to pay for an app that was previously free, and upgrade the OS on ALL of my mobile devices, which will eliminate compatibility with my laptop since I'm not sure it will handle Mavericks, thus forcing me to upgrade my laptop in order to download an app for my mobile device that until a few days ago was free.

 

This tendency to aggressively force upgrades is NOT part of the mentality I have come to associate with Apple. Perhaps I'm naiive, but this was not part of the company I have been faithful to since time of the IIe.

 

Perhaps I'm mistaken in my understanding, and there's an avenue for installing Garageband on my IOS7 device.

If there is, please let me know.

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM), iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Sep 27, 2014 6:37 AM

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Q: How do I install Garageband on IOS 7?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 27, 2014 7:12 AM in response to organicpanic
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    Sep 27, 2014 7:12 AM in response to organicpanic
    a) Garageband no longer free (I get it, Apple can change their prices, yeah, but I was disappointed since Garageband was one of the reasons I finally upgraded)

    GarageBand 2.0 has never really been free. Last year, when GarageBand 2.0  had been released, it came preinstalled or for free as a package deal when buying a new iPad, iPod, iPhone with iOS 7 after a certain date in September last year. But GarageBand was never part of iOS 7.

    If your device was older, you had to buy GarageBand 2.0.  You could buy it for free, but had to buy an in-app purchase, to be able to use it. Now Apple has reversed the procedure. You pay for GarageBand (the same price as previously the in-app purchase), but now the in-App purchase is free.  What you have to pay for GarageBand remains the same. So just buy the version you are seeing at the AppStore. It should not make a difference, if you pay for the basic app or for the in-App Purchase.

     

    Now, GarageBand comes fro free with new iPhone 6 devices:  Free Apple apps for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with iOS 8

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Sep 27, 2014 8:31 AM in response to organicpanic
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    Sep 27, 2014 8:31 AM in response to organicpanic

    Once you've purchased the app you should be able to download the most recent version that is compatible with your device's OS from the App Store. See Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X.

     

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